Coronavirus Part IV - 19 cases in ROI, 7 in NI (as of 7 March) *Read warnings in OP*

Kermit.de.frog

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Trinity must be 1 of the 4 cases in the east anyway.

Email doing the rounds but it also says college is open and operating as normal

Possibly not one of the four.

Trinity say they found out late tonight.

moonshadow

Trinity college is the next one...will/won't be announced at 8.30 tomorrow evening but the email is out.

sunshinew

stephenjmcd wrote: »

Trinity must be 1 of the 4 cases in the east anyway.

Email doing the rounds but it also says college is open and operating as normal

I work there and got no email. Where's the link to this? I know an academic got tested and got the all clear.

igCorcaigh

froog wrote: »

he got in big trouble earlier for seeming to suggest people a little bit sick should still go to work. came out with a frantic backtracking tweet later after his handlers had a word with him.

America has handled this very badly. What with the testing fiasco, and lack of employee cover, looking very bad on them.

YFlyer

Maddox Jealous Yard wrote: »

360,000 population, 36 cases?
0.001% of population infected I think, although my maths has been known to be absolutely crap.

0.01%

10000maniacs

10000maniacs wrote: »

At this stage, the numbers are meaningless.

Well, that's useful. Some people were mad for statistics when the CFR was around 9%.

Pseudonym121

cnocbui wrote: »

If I haven't miscalculated - always a possibility - Ireland has 16 times the infection rate of the UK, per head of population.

Hi cnocbui,

I don’t want to criticise you personally but I believe the way you are phrasing this is giving an inaccurate impression.

Ireland may have more cases per capita than the UK but that really doesn’t allow us to draw that conclusion about infection rate ( or incidence if you will). You can the prevalence is higher but I don’t think you can draw too many conclusions about incidence.

In addition to this with such small numbers one cluster makes such a difference that it can really skew things. What matters is that both the UK and Ireland have proven community spread and that changes the situation we find ourselves in.

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Gael23

Astounding that the situation in Italy was ignited by just one infected person

skimpydoo

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

What is latest on Cock University Hospital, is that ground zero tonight. The mistake we all worried about, and it was a Doctor who caused it.

We don't know that a Doctor caused it.

Doctor Jimbob

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

The poster you're referring to claimed earlier that the 2009 swine flu outbreak wasnt a pandemic. They're on a wind up.

I dunno. They write like a doctor would write. I think the pandemic thing could have been a slip of the tongue. He said he worked in medicine so could forgive him that as infectious diseases is a different area.

tails_naf

The HSE are a disgrace. I know a doctor in CUH, who's colleague was literally coughed on by the person in Cork who has been confirmed, and at the time she didn't have PPE. She's not been tested or told to self isolate. With that kind of approach amongst medical staff we're fecked.

Andrew00

All I wanna say is

F*ck you Italy, f*ck you.

stephenjmcd

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Possibly not one of the four.

Trinity say they found out late tonight.

Well yes but the DoH did say contact tracing had only just begun and that was at half 8

ITman88

Doctor Jimbob wrote: »

The poster you're referring to claimed earlier that the 2009 swine flu outbreak wasnt a pandemic. They're on a wind up.

Careful Jim the poster you are referring to is a doctor.
He has to be, he said on an Internet forum he was, and luckily opened his account here during February.

froog

igCorcaigh wrote: »

America has handled this very badly. What with the testing fiasco, and lack of employee cover, looking very bad on them.

i said it in the previous thread, i reckon the US is more infected than any country other than china. they must have thousands by now and still faffing about trying to get test kits.

Pseudonym121

Deleted User wrote: »

Pseudonym 121. I get ya with concern about its ability to cause encephalitis. Your post just came across a bit ambiguous about the "cured patient" aspect. I understand that you had doubts about this statement but there was nothing in the study to suggest the patient had been cured of COVID-19 so was unsure why you mentioned that aspect.

Ah ok, my bad. I was thinking of reservoirs and how someone could have a negative test on several occasions and then be positive days later.

I’ll try to be more careful how I phrase things going forward, thanks.

BorneTobyWilde

Question Time on BBC 1 NOW

sunshinew

sunshinew wrote: »

I work there and got no email. Where's the link to this? I know an academic got tested and got the all clear.

Scrap the above, just got a WhatsApp from a colleague. Looks like it's true re: Trinity.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

RandomName2 wrote: »

'If you are traveling to Idlib in Syria you should be concerned'
'YOURE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!'



Their angle is that the half million people who died from swine flu were a waste of space, and that covid-19 is a bit of a joke. While I can appreciate a somewhat morbid disposition on their part, the lackadaisical attitude is not just isolated to themselves in the event of an infectious disease.

Yeah, that’s not what I said or implied. I asked what you knew about the half a million people who died from it.

YFlyer

IspeakcozIcan wrote: »

Boyfriend went to the GP today. Most probably doesn't have coronavirus, and is just unwell. He is prone to sore throats.

GP said even if he thought he had it, e.g. came back from Northern Italy, he would not be tested because he is young and they don't have resources to test the young. Young people just go home and wait it out.

There's hundreds of people already infected. Tests are not a reflection of actual numbers.

Yes best for him to self isolate. Ideally an ensuite room. Leave food outside the door. Paper plates and plastic cutlery so he can dump them.

Hope he rang beforehand if he thought he had coronavirus.

namloc1980

sunshinew wrote: »

I work there and got no email. Where's the link to this? I know an academic got tested and got the all clear.

Copies of email on Twitter.

stephenjmcd

sunshinew wrote: »

I work there and got no email. Where's the link to this? I know an academic got tested and got the all clear.

Image below

Exclamation Marc

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

The leaderboard of shame

China 80,430
S. Korea 6,088
Italy 3,858
Iran 3,513
Diamond Princess 696
Germany 545
France 423
Japan 361
Spain 282
USA 209
Switzerland 118
Singapore 117
UK 116
Hong Kong 105
Sweden 94
Norway 91
Netherlands 82
Kuwait 58
Bahrain 55
Malaysia 55
Australia 53
Belgium 50
Thailand 47
Taiwan 44
Austria 43
Canada 37
Iraq 35
Iceland 35
Greece 31
India 30
UAE 28
San Marino 21
Denmark 20
Algeria 17
Israel 17
Lebanon 16
Oman 16
Vietnam 16
Ecuador 13
Ireland 13
Czechia 12
Finland 12
Macao 10
Croatia 10
Georgia 9
Portugal 9
Brazil 8
Qatar 8
Palestine 7
Azerbaijan 6
Belarus 6
Mexico 6
Romania 6
Slovenia 6
Estonia 5
Pakistan 5
Saudi Arabia 5
New Zealand 4
Russia 4


A real tussle between France and Germany. The country of bread and wine versus the country of iron and steel.

The good news is that Ireland are sneaking up into the automatic qualification spot for the next virus outbreak. Typically though, we're relying on imports.

tuxy

Gael23 wrote: »

Astounding that the situation in Italy was ignited by just one infected person

I'm surprised they have managed to trace it back to one person in Italy.

What country had they traveled from?

Sober Crappy Chemis

Come on my fellow COVID thread people..
Giz a hug

ArchXStanton

reegis12345 wrote: »

Interestingly, I was just talking to my partner about this. At the start of February, she came down with an illness that bears many similarities to covid19: very high temperature; fever; muscle aches; difficulty breathing; etc. She has had the flu before but said this felt different.

Also, her job is unique in that she serves and is in close physical contact with a lot of customers who travel from all parts of China, specifically to come to this store. Possibly could have been passed on to her by one of them? Who knows.

Of course, this is all theoretical and it could have been the flu - we can't be sure. But interesting to think about. Either way, two weeks of solid rest and she recovered.

I was talking to another guy tonight and he said the same, me and him had some fcuked up type of flu, it lasted about 3 months for me and 3 rounds of antibiotics that did nothing, I went through various different stages from phlegm, muscle, aches, back pain, feeling weak and headaches. I only managed to shake it about 2 weeks ago... I've never had anything even close to it

Computer Science Student

Yeah there's at least 40 to my knowledge of cases that are about to be announced but hse has to go through the rigmarole of sussing out the fiber details before they are as kind as to let us know. Then there's the hundreds that have it and have not been tested. This thing is already far beyond containment. It's here, and it's going nowhere.

BorneTobyWilde

Andrew00 wrote: »

All I wanna say is

F*ck you Italy, f*ck you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neIFwvbqwL8

RandomName2

RandomName2 wrote: »

The poster in question hand waves the half million dead figure from the swine flu.

I think the attitude of trying to stop pandemics as 'hysterical' is dangerously complacent. I do't see any mistake in relation to that.

Give it a f*cking rest. ODB already has to take all precautions necessary to protect herself from any number of risks due to her situation. So regardless of how she feels about the level of danger Covid-19 poses, she's not someone who's going to cause spread through complacency. She's also a very much liked and respected poster around here and I suspect people may start to close ranks. So if you want to keep posting here I think you should probably back off. I know I for one have reported you already.

You can't tell people how to feel. So just speak for yourself yeah?